Grace Brethren Church of Clinton MD
Matthew 5:14-16 ESV
Nehemiah
Rebuilding the Walls
Hand to Hands
Ch 7
List of Returning Exiles
1st Return - Zerubbabel 538 BC [Ezra 1-6]
2nd Return - Ezra 458 BC [Ezra 7-10]
3rd Return - Nehemiah 445 BC [Nehemiah 2]
Lesson from Chapter 7
People are important to God. Luke 15
God uses people, but it is the Lord who does the work
John Wesley - God buries His workers but continues His work.
3. We must know we are in the family of God. 7:62-64
John 1:12
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
Reading of the Law of God 8:1-8
Deuteronomy 31:10-13
1 Thessalonians 2:13
And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
Ezra 7:10
For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.
B. Response to the reading of the Word 8:9-12
2 Timothy 3:16-17
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God
may be competent, equipped for every good work.
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Psalms 51:16-17
For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Psalms 19:8 (Psalms 119:111)
The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Jeremiah 15:16
Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts.
Psalms 1:2
but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law, he meditates day and night.
Psalms 119:162
I rejoice at Your word as one who finds great treasure.
C. Feast of Booths Celebrated 8:13-18
James 3:1
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
Leviticus 23
1. Do we delight in the Word of God?
2. What is our response to reading God’s Word?
Luke 22:19-20
And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me." 20 And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, "This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.